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Study shows why anesthetic stops cell’s walkers in their tracks – Phys.org
Like a wrench that gums up the gears, a common anesthetic keeps the motor proteins in your cells from making their rounds.
Like a wrench that gums up the gears, a common anesthetic keeps the motor proteins in your cells from making their rounds.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but how it works has been a mystery until now.
Researchers at Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) detail the mechanism that allows propofolthe general anesthetic injected to knock you out before surgeryto halt the movement of kinesin proteins that deliver cargoes along microtubules to the far reaches of cells.
The drug’s…
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